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Pitching in to clean up Somerville’s forgotten spaces, volunteers shared a sense of accomplishment and duty to community.
On Friday, September 23, Groundwork Somerville engaged Tufts University Volunteers in an effort to clean up Somerville in our second annual Green-a-thon. Students volunteering through “Repair the World Service Day” met Groundwork Somerville representatives at two sites in the city that have been flagged “dirty” by community members. The event was made possible thanks to the support of Apex Green Roofs, www.raymondzonghetti.com, and Somerville’s Department of Public Works.
In planning the event, Groundwork Somerville was pleased to discover how hard it was to find a truly dirty plot of land in the city. Thanks to the hard work of employees of the Department of Public Works, Somerville’s parks and streets are cleaned very regularly and do not seem to accumulate trash. The sites in the city that need clean-up assistance are the vacant and unclaimed spaces.
One team diligently picked up trash in a vacant lot adjacent to the Healey School and near Groundwork Somerville’s Healey School Garden. Upon completion of this task, they moved across the black top to pick up trash and remove invasive Japanese Knotweed from the sloped area between the school and Mystic housing development. The second team worked hard to clean the steep wet forested slope behind the Somerville High School and the Commuter Rail tracks. Within two hours, 18 bags of trash, 10 bags of recycling, and 4 yard waste bags were filled! Groundwork Somerville would like to thank Apex Green Roofs, www.raymondzonghetti.com, Somerville’s Department of Public Works, the Alpha Phi Sorrority, Groundwork Somerville’s National Park Preservers, and Repair the World Service Day for making this Green-a-thon possible.
- Tai Dinnan
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CLEAN UP NEEDED NOW !!
Could a Team of these “Tufts Cuties” volunteers be dispatched over to the ‘John F. Kennedy Elementary School’ to scour and clean out the pockets of hideous liberalism noticed there in recent days? This liberal contamination is now in the process of attempting to destroy our precious National Holidays!!
The most serious liberal contamination appears to be in/around the principals office! Please hurry ! We don’t want any danger of this stuff spreading!
I think we are to late, she’s already infected others like the superintendent, we need to get a crew up to City Hall as well.
It’s too bad that instead we could have used some of the able bodied people we are paying to do nothing that could be used for things like this. There are so many abusing the system. It’s nice to see students involved in doing decent things also. We normally just hear of the few that are doing things that are destructive or rowdy. Would be nice to hear more of the good things some of these kids do.
You punks! Pay respect to these girls! They do not need to volunteer, they just do it because they want to help. They are setting a great example. OKAY, perhaps they do it in part so they can put on their CV that they volunteered for Groundwork Somerville. But why shouldn’t they?